A tosh of Two Cities by Charles Dickens List of important characters: Dr. Alexandre Manette Lucie Manette, daughter of Alexandre Manette Charles Darney Sydney Carton, an attorney Monsieur Ernest Defarge, a drink shop possessor Madame Therese Defarge, wife of Mr. Defarge Mr. Jarvis Lorry, banker         My favorite scene in A Tale of Two Cities is one of the last scenes, when Sydney Carton is about to go to the guillotine. It takes place in Paris, near a prison, and some(prenominal) spate have gathered to watch french aristocrats be beheaded. The ambience is tense and chaotic; Sydney, however, remains calm, even though he is about to be killed. Sydney is holding the hand of a unfledged girl who is given no name other than a poor little seamstress. Sydney and the seamstress, who are both macrocosm wrongfully killed, comfort each other just to begin with they reach the guillotine, and they seem to have an instant romantic conjunction with each other. I turn ind this scene because it showed that Sydney Carton had at last found someone who could love him, as he could love them, but it saddened me that he had found her just before their deaths.
        another(prenominal) scene I particularly enjoyed was the scene in which a large cask of wine had dropped and broken in the street.
Because many people had very little to eat or drink, a large crowd gathered around the dirty wanton away and began drinking what they could of the spilled wine. This scene was very descriptive, explaining how the people tried to withdraw up the wine in their hands, and how they soaked it up with handkerchiefs from womens heads and squeezed the wine into infants mouths. Other people licked the stones in the street or sucked on the pieces of wood from the cask. This passage showed how...
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